From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:opsktjwfe0eipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
>> I agree that there are people who make conclusions that are a bit
 in
>> the
>> conspiracy camp side. I don't know why some of the stuff occurred and we
>> will never know. I just want it to be known what happened so we can
>> clean up
>> elections for all.
>>
> I like the simple ballot-scanning system we have in Vermont.  Unlike many
> of the computerized systems and the old mechanical lever systems I used to
> use in New York there is a paper trail for recounts.  One OTHER advantage,
> though, I don't see talked about.  With the new voting machines you have a
> certain number of expensive computers with voters dawdling over them
> slowing down the process.  In Vermont we can spend less money on a much
> larger number of old-fashioned walled tables where people fill in the
> bubbles on the ballots.  When they are done they insert them into just the
> couple of needed scanning machines on their way out the door.  It looks a
> LOT more cost effective to me.
>
> One potential DISADVANTAGE to our system is what looks to have happened in
> Washington where a few hundred PROVISIONAL ballots were improperly
> inserted into scanners rather than collected in boxes for later
> verification of registration and tabulation.  The provisional ballots
> should NOT have been designed to be scannable, at least not by the same
> scanners.  The main scanners should have spit them out.
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

Nice simple and straightforward. I like it.

Bob Lewis

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